MDDM: Washington & Gershom

[jbor]

Thanks for posting these links, Otto. They do relate very much to the
reference to the N-word being a "Shark" in "this quiet Pool of Reason".

It seems that, whoever it is that Pynchon has speak those words in his text
(most probably GW), is very insightful and ahead of his time.

best


on 12/7/02 8:10 PM, Otto at ottosell at yahoo.de wrote:

> A Note On The Word "Nigger"
> By Randall Kennedy, Professor of Law, Harvard University
> http://blackhistory.harpweek.com/1Introduction/RandallKennedyEssay.htm
> 
> The N-Word, Randall Kennedy, and the Complexity of Meaning
> By Jamie Glazov
> FrontPageMagazine.com | May 6, 2002
> http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=206
> 
> Name Game
> New book about racial epithet misses the point
> By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
> http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/01.24.02/hutchison-0204.html
> 
> That controversy lasts to this day, and has echoes in the contemporary feud
> between filmmakers Spike Lee and Quentin Tarrantino. Lee takes the position
> that growing up in Newark around black folk does not entitle Tarrantino to
> use the N-word. Tarrantino, stung, has sometimes replied that his father's
> girlfriend is black, so his use of the N-word was okay. He has become NBA:
> Negro By Association. Which brings us to Kennedy's brief concluding chapter,
> 4, "How Are We Doing With Nigger?"
> http://www.jbhe.com/book_rev/35_kennedy.html
> 
> RASSISMUS IN DEN USA
> Wer hat die Lizenz zum "Niggern"?
> Von Steven Geyer, Washington
> Die Rassenproblematik in den USA ist bisher nur in der Theorie gelöst - sagt
> zumindest der schwarze Rechtsprofessor Randall Kennedy. Er analysierte den
> komplizierten amerikanischen Rassismus und seine Ausprägungen in Popkultur
> und Gesellschaft an Hand des Schimpfwortes "Nigger" - und landete einen
> kontroversen Bestseller.
> http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,204810,00.html
> 
> Randall L. Kennedy: "Nigger - The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word":
> Pantheon Books, New York
>